Internationale Vedische Projekte
Vedische Projekte zur Verbesserung der globalen Lebensqualität durch Vedische Erziehung und Bildung, Programme zur Verwirklichung einer idealen Gesellschaft, globale Forschungsprogramme, indigene kulturelle Integrität, Gandharva Veda Konzerte für den Weltfrieden und vieles mehr.
Reading the Vedic Scriptures - Lesen der Vedischen Literatur
Every individual of the 21st century can make use of the knowledge ingrained in the Vedic Literature because of four mutually supportive developments:
- It is easy to learn Sanskrit every where in the world via online teaching programs and locally at universities and other centers of learning.
- All currently existing Vedic scriptures are available online in digital form.
- Reading Vedic scriptures has an experiential effect on mind, body, and environment.
- Through the practice of mediation and yoga pure consciousness - the transcendental home of all knowledge - is open to everyone.
The teaching of Sanskrit in the Devanagari script or in phonetic transcription has been perfected to such a degree that learning is easy and effective. Several comprehensive online collections of Vedic texts are available for free to everyone. A very complete list of links is given at https://sanskritdocuments.org/
It is mentioned there that the Vedic Reserve (index) put online by Maharishi International University is the world's most comprehensive and orderly collection of Vedic Literature in the Devanagari script. Research at Maharishi Internationale University focuses on verifying the subjective and objective effects of reading the Vedic literature . The PhD theses done at the university confirm a wide range of benefits, from mental and psychological to physiological and environmental. In the introduction to the Vedic Reserve it is stated that “Reading the Vedic Literature in sequence is the procedure to spontaneously train the brain physiology and the whole physiology of speech to function in the most orderly way. Practicing Transcendental Meditation is the procedure to daily experiencing self-referral consciousness in order that the infinite organizing power of one's own Transcendental Consciousness (one's own simplest form of awareness) becomes the guiding light of every thought and action."
Digital Research Platform for Vedic Texts
VedaWeb, launched in 2020 at the University of Cologne, is a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic and philological research on Vedic texts. It emerged from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries a large collection of digitized Sanskrit dictionaries of over thirty-five work, the largest collection of Sanskrit dictionaries worldwide: It was initiated in 1994, at a time XML did not exist and Sanskrit had no proper Unicode support. The digitalization of most of the works was completed in 2013. The Veda Web adds multiple textual, lexical and other types of linguistic data and integrates them in a single digital set up. In order to build VedaWeb, a group of historical linguists, general linguists and computational linguists have teamed up in 2017 with specialists in digital humanities at the University of Cologne. The early project leaders and participating scientist are Prof. N. Himmelmann and Dr. C. Neuefeind from Cologne, Prof. P. Sahle from Wuppertal, Prof. D. Kölligan from Würzburg and Prof. L. Romary from Berlin. In addition, the project team collaborates with scientists from other Universities: Prof. G. Dunkel, and Prof. P. Widmer, Zurich (morphology experts); Prof. K. Ryan, Harvard, USA, Dr. D. Gunkel, Richmond, USA (Vedic meter); Prof. H. Hettrich, Würzburg, Dr. O. Hellwig, Düsseldorf, and Prof. U. Reinöhl, Cologne/Mainz (syntax). In the first phase of the project, the RIG VEDA has been made available in a digitally accessible as well as morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. As an example, the VedaWeb entry of RIG VEDA 1.1.1 is given here. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass further Vedic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to add data to the platform. The direct linking of the digitalized Sanskrit text with the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT) application programming interface is a unique feature of the VedaWeb platform compared to existing resources e.g. the Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS). Long-term sustainability of data and software will be ensured through cooperation with the Data Center for the Humanities at the University of Cologne. Several research papers and presentations document the steps of developing the VedaWeb.
VedaWeb, launched in 2020 at the University of Cologne, is a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic and philological research on Vedic texts. It emerged from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries a large collection of digitized Sanskrit dictionaries of over thirty-five work, the largest collection of Sanskrit dictionaries worldwide: It was initiated in 1994, at a time XML did not exist and Sanskrit had no proper Unicode support. The digitalization of most of the works was completed in 2013. The Veda Web adds multiple textual, lexical and other types of linguistic data and integrates them in a single digital set up. In order to build VedaWeb, a group of historical linguists, general linguists and computational linguists have teamed up in 2017 with specialists in digital humanities at the University of Cologne. The early project leaders and participating scientist are Prof. N. Himmelmann and Dr. C. Neuefeind from Cologne, Prof. P. Sahle from Wuppertal, Prof. D. Kölligan from Würzburg and Prof. L. Romary from Berlin. In addition, the project team collaborates with scientists from other Universities: Prof. G. Dunkel, and Prof. P. Widmer, Zurich (morphology experts); Prof. K. Ryan, Harvard, USA, Dr. D. Gunkel, Richmond, USA (Vedic meter); Prof. H. Hettrich, Würzburg, Dr. O. Hellwig, Düsseldorf, and Prof. U. Reinöhl, Cologne/Mainz (syntax). In the first phase of the project, the RIG VEDA has been made available in a digitally accessible as well as morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. As an example, the VedaWeb entry of RIG VEDA 1.1.1 is given here. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass further Vedic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to add data to the platform. The direct linking of the digitalized Sanskrit text with the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts (C-SALT) application programming interface is a unique feature of the VedaWeb platform compared to existing resources e.g. the Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS). Long-term sustainability of data and software will be ensured through cooperation with the Data Center for the Humanities at the University of Cologne. Several research papers and presentations document the steps of developing the VedaWeb.
Mutter Meera, geboren als Kamela Reddy 1960 in Süd-Indien, lebte ab 1976 im Shri Aurobindo Ashram in Ponducherry und danach seit 1982 in Deutschland. Als Avatar widmet sie ihr Leben der Aufgabe, das Licht des Paramatman (param=transzendental , atman= reines selbstbezogenes Bewusstsein) jedem Menschen zugänglich zu machen, unabhängig von seiner Weltanschauung oder Glaubensrichtung. Ihr Wirken zielt nicht auf die Begründung einer Lehre, Organisation oder Bewegung; sie hält keine Vorträge, beantwortet aber Fragen. Die Fragen und ihre Antworten werden aufgezeichnet, transkribiert, übersetzt und im Internet sowie in Buchform zugänglich gemacht. Besonders betont Mutter Meera die Wichtigkeit regelmäßiger Meditation und gibt dazu auch praktische Empfehlungen, lehrt aber keine bestimmte Meditationsmethode. Sie benutzt eine als „Darshan“ bezeichnete Form der Gruppenmeditationen, wobei in Anwesenheit von Mutter Meera gemeinsam meditiert wird. Ein besonderer von Mutter Meera entwickelter Darshan-Ablauf unterstützt die natürliche Auflösung von bestimmten Blockaden in Nervenbahnen (Nadis). Das fördert die Erfahrung tiefer Stille in der Meditation. Während der Corona-Pandemie werden unter dem Titel „Meditation wherever you are“ täglich kostenlos Darshan über Internet angeboten. Diese live Meditationen dauern jeweils 60 - 90 Minuten. Jeden Tag nehmen mehrere Tausend Menschen weltweit an dem online Darshan teil. Mutter Meera weist darauf hin, dass es immer viele Avatare, göttliche Wesen, Sadhus, Gurus und spirituelle Meister auf der Erde gibt, die den Menschen auf ihrem Weg zum Göttlichen helfen. Bis zum Beginn der Corona-Pandemie reiste Mutter Meera regelmäßig in die verschiedenen Länder Europas sowie nach USA, Kanada, Australien, Singapur und Indien. In allen Teilen der Welt entstanden so eigenständige Meditationsgruppen. Über in Deutschland, der Schweiz und USA gegründete Stiftungen fördert Mutter Meera Schulen für Jungen und Mädchen in Indien.
Minimal Phenomenal Experience Project
Thomas Metzinger Dr. habil., born 1958 in Frankfurt/Main, since 2000 professor of philosophy at the University of Mainz . He became internationally renowned by emphasizing the philosophical relevance of the empirical research on the neural correlates of consciousnesses, including its ethical consequences. In the books "Being No One"(2003) and "The Ego Tunnel" (2009, revised German edition 2014) Metzinger investigates the philosophical implications of objective consciousness-research. This lead him to establish in 2019 the Minimal Phenomenal Experience Project as a complementary approach which focusses on the subjective side by studying the role of pure consciousness . The methodology of the project - combining phenomenology and analytical approach - matches with the traditional Vedic approach which integrates Yoga ( knowledge by direct peeption) with Mimansa (analysis of activity, language and behavior). Statements from publication of Th. Metzinger confirm the mutual validation of the Minimal Phenomental Experience Project and the Vedic aproach to pure consciousness. After the concept of Minimal Phenomenal Experience had been introduced in 2015, it received widespread acceptance and is discussed vividly. Important papers documenting this development are listed as Discussion on the MPE-Concept (2015 - 2021) and further establish the relevance of the MPE-Project in Vedtic Studies.
Global Ram Raj - Global Country of World Peace
Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.R.R., born 1955 in Libanon, a medical doctor with MD
degree from the American University of Beirut where he studied internal
medicine and psychiatry. He received his PhD in neuroscience at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). In the early 1990s, T. Nader
joined Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to do Vedic research, which has been
summarized in the book Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the
Vedic Literature (first edition 1994). For this achievement he was honored as Maharaja Adhiraj Raja Raam, MARR. T. Nader became Maharishis successor as head of the international Transcendental Meditation organizations in 2008, dedicated to create and maintain a Global Country of World Peace. With his second book Ramayan
in Human Physiology published in 2011 T. Nader demonstrated the conformity between global peace and the ancient reign of Ram (Ram Raj) by documenting the
correlation between the characters, relationships, locations, and events
of the Valmiki Ramayana with the structures and functions of human physiology. According to T. Nader, the Ramayana desgribes in detail how Ram, the Totality of Natural Law, organizes all levels of life. To clarify the ancient concept of “Administration through Natural Law” (Ram Raj) from a scientific perspective T. Nader proposes to take "Consciousness is all there is” (2015) as axiom in the sense of mathematical logic and apply the axiomatic method to understand consciousness at work. The book "One unbounded ocean of consciousness" (2021) intends to explain how this practically works in selected fields of knowlege and life.